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making how i’m feeling now was such a good move for her whenever i think about covid and quarantine i think about that album and weirdly enough, very nostalgic and positive feelings. the whole process was just so amazing and the album sounds great and not dated at all

A cover that Billie Eilish did of hotline bling started going sort of viral on TikTok a few weeks ago and she already put it out on streaming. Not sure why this song hasn’t been released yet. Seems like a wasted opportunity at this point.

I went to Paris... (texas!)

you would thought they learned their lesson after flop starts now, crapnuts, if kim is a flopster and farrrrt, yet here we are. this label WON'T learn. it will only get more and more generic and worse with every single that flops until she either gets a hit or get to such a critical point with flopping that they drop her (mind you this could take 5-ish years of false starts and career destruction until they decide to drop her)

it's crazy to me how ava triggers everyone lmao like ok she's a little bit generic but let's not forget charli is the same person who wrote senorita, boom clap, i love it, break the rules... not very different from any generic pop song lol. also.... what's so wrong with straight up beautiful pop songs??? being edgy stopped being cool in 2016, we gotta let tumblr go.

I'm on lots of things right now but I saw Grimes's name and I do want to say that she's scary looking. I feel like she would secretly lure me into a sex trafficking operation and then get away with it by posting a video on twitter of her lisping about how AI controlled her and made her do it or some wackadoodle shit like that See y'all she does so many things.. scary

It was literally around the time that Marina called her out that marinas entire career started to crumble. Like what has she given us since? Changing her iconic stage name to a basic one, not a single memorable song since album 3, 2 of the worst albums I’ve ever heard, “””poetry”””, cringey social justice lyrics…. Meanwhile charli has built one of the most devoted fan bases in music, doesn’t have a single bad album, continues to make amazing music….. like, we have to laugh charli probably hexed her lmfao

withasuitcaseinmy hand

something like samsung has given her so many phones because she kept loosing them

If Candy Necklace is a late addition/replacement, was Jon Batiste Interlude still there without CN? It’s strange but not impossible.

Same I've gotten those emails for like 75% of the merch I ordered. So unprofessional

Yep, it's the mandatory skip. I never liked it and honestly the chorus is so rubbish lmao It was not my intention to bash the album just like that Portals is definitely a step in the right direction in all fronts since K-12/After School, but I honestly still feel a little hesitant about the project as a whole. Aside from so many intros and outros that sometimes do not add much to the tracks looking at you, Faerie Soirée and The Contortionist intros, and the vocal production in many songs, the album definitely has strong points and some career highlights imo (Tunnel Vision, The Contortionist, Evil, Pluto). I'm definitely happy we got the deluxe because in the end I love all three new songs and it was a nice addition - I can happily ditch skip Moon Cycle, Nymphology and Spider Web, keep the deluxe tracks and not fearing an extra short album. It's just it's taken me longer than other Melanie albums to fully enjoy even K-12, back in the day I bopped to most of that but now... I don't, but I have hopes that it will grow on me with time. And probably I still mourn for the loss of Needle & Thread, Fingers Crossed and the original Death, Garden and the original Void too. But that's on me because I was so avid for new material that I gave in to the leaks year and a half ago. Sorry for the essay

So we entered the “bashing the album era” Portals is good and a step up from K12, I like the alien/fairy/spirit persona she created for this era. The only thing that I dont like is the vocal mastering choices in some songs. At the end of the day she saved the era with the Deluxe songs and the masterpiece that is The Contortionist and Evil (the lowpass filter still a horrid choice tho)

as much as I like Ava and some of her songs im sorry but her label really pushed her to be “the next Gaga” with makeup, wigs, persona and songs to a certain extent and… she agreed and went for it im sorry. btw download Emotions and play her best song to this date

POP EMERGENCY: The album fell to 84 on the BB200

But she doesn't, and neither does her band

as a grimes music fan who has no knowledge of her personality etc outside of it … i recommended my friend Art Angels and Visions today because she has always given me Grimes vibes and they loved it

When these are just Justin Raisen demos with one hook repeated over a 5 min loop then what

I read this whole thing and i still have no idea wtf it’s about

Bring back the woman who made Era 1 & TOTL!!!

nothing

what is hope is a dangerous thing doing anywhere near this thread

Some of the takes in here

Half of these lyrics are looking camp right in the eye and if you get it you get it, if you don't you don't

It's been a long time since I shared some music here. I just discovered this gem of a band, and this is their debut single. Keep watch, I got great feelings about where this group's gonna go. Fucking gorgeous, fun track.

I'm sorry but Nymphology is the worst song on the album for me. I genuinely don't understand it. The lyrics are cringeworthy, the production is bland, and it overall sounds like it was made by and for edgy teenagers. It's just Fire Drills less interesting, more annoying little sister.

yall are making me realize i forgot some of the best ones

We have a thread for Ava max on somewhere here- please direct some of these responses to it

Hopefully Pretty Dull this May and Masochism this October.

That's why I wonder if Purify is also a track with Jon (at least on production) cause it makes no sense that the album first leaked without CN but we still had the interlude... unless whoever leaked it took Purify off cause they knew it was scrapped (at least from Ocean Blvd)

it wouldve worked really good if she wouldve released sime kind of unreleased compilation in like end of 2021 - start of 2022 instead of blue banisters, leaving bb as just an ep out of 4 tracks - text book, blue banisters, wildflower wildfire and Black bathing suit

Crying at you being his ghostwriter

Not really understanding the Ava discourse tbh- charli would never sing something like so am I- the only slight similarity they share is that Ava’s whole career is basically Bebe rexha performing as a gaga tribute act and good ones could of potentially fitted on the fame although it’s more dark coded with some very faint 80s dark wave influence.

you know what would have been iconic is releasing an album 8 years ago what reason other than the number 10 do you have to believe it will come out in 2023? like at least last year she was actually pushing a single to prove the album was coming but it still led nowhere and that was the second time, mind you. this woman has parasocially abused me like she could release descending and drop a masochism preorder tomorrow and i would be questioning my reality and expecting her to pull the link or something lol. if the album goes live then it's a welcome surprise but until then everybody needs to stop setting themselves up for disappointment. or i mean you do you i guess but that's my opinion on the matter. at most you could hope for a night time my time vinyl repress which capitol would make her pay for (which is to say it would never happen). realistically you are going to get an anniversary post on instagram circulate and leak all my lovers die in that order

I don't think either of them cheated. He doesn't enjoy that level of celebrity and at the time Midnights was sent off everything was probably fine, but its complete success straight out of the gate followed by all the stuff with the tour probably made both of them realize they couldn't return to what they had like when things calmed down during the pandemic. I'm sure the ending was mutual and was on good terms. I'm mildly interested by the idea the entire album was written knowing what would happen and could be an attempt to stave off the inevitable, but I don't really believe it.

there were confirmations that both Interludes were on it even when purify was supposed to be on the album

Without the interlude, there would be no Jon Batiste on the album at all. I'm also surprised that this great artist plays such a minor role on the album, he deserved more.

and you always let me copy your homework and i'll never i'll never forget that

her Animal/Cannibal era was outdated in sounds but her comedy notes in her songwriting skills is literally pure gold in this era and almost unseen in most other pop stars - whose "comedy" often are bland or offensive in the dumbest ways possible.

i’ve tried this with unholy babe you can keep trying to eat shit but it’s always going to taste like shit

Oh cmon.. it’s not cringy, it’s just simple as she says in the song

1 year since this profound moment in history

charli ai when? we need daddy knows and we ARE going to get it one way or another

Same. I'm calling a lawyer. Can we class action her into releasing the album? Cite unrelenting psychological distress and gaslighting?

God is near me bc I'm finally getting the amazon vinyl for retail price with free shipping in 2 days and I didn’t spend twice as much buying it from a reseller when it was sold out 🙏

true good ones is very ava coded specially with this eurythmics kinda sound since interpolations is sorta her thing

Somebody shared the HQ rip a while ago! Here: Groupie Love (Alt. Version) [HQ Rip] Also added a little remaster I did in case y'all are interested